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If Roe is overturned, the democratic
process—not the courts—will determine abortion policy.

Before Roe, all states permitted abortion if
necessary to save the mother's life, and some permitted abortion in additional
circumstances.1
But Roe deemed any prohibition on
abortion as unconstitutional.

If
Roe is overturned, policy decisions
about abortion will be made by the citizens of each state through the
democratic process, rather than by courts. Some states will place limits on abortion, in others there will likely
be few limits.2

Not
until Roe v. Wade is reversed will
the people again be able to govern themselves on the important public policy
issue of abortion.

1 Paul Benjamin
Linton, "Planned Parenthood v. Casey:
The Flight from Reason in the Supreme Court," 13 St. Louis University Public
Law Review 15, 24-26 (1993).

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